Since you are interested in Essential Guitar [2 CD set], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
RODRIGO / PONCE / BOCCHERINI
Concertos Andras Segovia, guitar [ DG Segovia Collection / CD - released 19/Apr/2005 ] "Segovia did more than any other performer to popularise the guitar and establish its rightful place in the hierarchy of solo instruments." |
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un Gentilhombre / Concierto para una Fiesta David Russell (guitar) Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kunzel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] Concierto de Aranjuez was written at a time when Rodrigo was outside of Spain. He returned to Madrid at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, and premiered the piece, which was an immediate success. |
VILLA-LOBOS / RODRIGO / ALBeNIZ / de FALLA / GRANADOS / etc
Espana: Spanish guitar classics Gareth Koch (guitar) [ ABC Classics / CD - released 24/Apr/2006 ] Featuring many of the great Spanish composers , Espana shows the differing moods of the guitar. From the fire of the flamenco to the stately sarabande, join Gareth on a musical journey around Spain. Works by Rodrigo, Sanz and Villa-Lobos. |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 1 (Incls 3 piezas espanolas & Sonata giocosa) Jeremy Jouve (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Apr/2008 ] "The young French guitarist Jérémy Jouve plays it brilliantly, although he is not a show-off artist, preferring musical values, which he displays in the sensitive account of the Andante moderato slow movement of the Sonata giocosa." Penguin Guide |
DE FALLA / RODRIGO / GINASTERA / DUNNE
Guitar Recital Jerome Ducharme (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] Joaquín Rodrigo, blind from childhood, established himself as the leading composer in Spain in the second half of the century, a rôle in which he followed Manuel de Falla. Like the latter, he studied in Paris, spending the years of the Civil War there. |
RODRIGO
Complete Orchestral Works 5 (Includes 'Concierto Madrigal' & 'Concierto para una fiesta') Joaquin Clerch, guitar / Ricardo Gallen, guitar Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias Maximiano Valdes, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] "As with Russians, it takes Spaniards to play Spanish music properly, and the Asturias Symphony rises eloquently to the task, filling the most urban sitting-room with those sweeping Spanish vistas." |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (with Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto) John Williams (guitar) / English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim & Charles Groves [ Sony Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "A warm, outgoing account, captured in a recording that focuses sharply on both guitaristic and orchestral details without seeming overly clinical" (New York Times) |
ESSENTIAL OPERA DIVAS
Essential Opera Divas [2 CD set] Various Artists incls Elina Garanca, Joan Sutherland, June Anderson, Anna Moffo, Berverly Sills, Angela Gheorghiu & Leontyne Price [ EMI Essential / 2 CD - released 18/Jan/2013 ] Welcome to Diva world - hear the stars of the operatic stage...Karita Mattila, Montserrat Caballé, Edita Gruberova, Dame Margaret Price, Elina Garanca, Anna Moffo, Anna Moffo & others. |